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Showing posts with label Kate Strickland. Show all posts
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Saturday, 25 May 2013

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Kate Strickland, Remnant Reliquary #32 (detail). Cast paper. 2008




















This is a mass of pulp that bears the memory of the hand that shaped it. It is the shape of a hand clenching, squeezing, holding on for dear life. Holding on to dear life. The interior of a fist.

The hand as the first and final reliquary.





Kate Strickland, remnant reliquaries

Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #12.
Cast paper, copper wire, rolled Japanese paper. 2007


























A reliquary is a vessel made to contain that which is sacred.

Kate Strickland's reliquaries are small in scale, intimate, and made of humble materials. Containing humble materials. Materials made from living things. Materials that are temporal; are temporary; are passing. Things that float, suspended in time, as we do.

Some of them fit in your pocket (the pocket, the everyday reliquary). Some can't be contained in whole universes.

The things that are most precious are perishable; are precious because they are perishable. Because they are impossible to contain for long.


Kate Strickland, Remnant Reliquary #13. Cast paper. 2007


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #15.
Cast paper, copper beads, thread. 2007


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #16.
Cast paper, polaroid transfer, silver wire. 2007


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #22.
Cast paper, seed pods, tangerine tree thorns. 2008




Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #29. Cast paper. 2008


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #7. Cast paper, thread. 2007


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #11. Cast paper, thread. 2007


Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #9.
Cast paper, beeswax, beaver vertebrae, waxed linen cord. 2007